Lot 3
A pair of Italian maiolica small albarelli, first half 16th century
7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A pair of Italian maiolica small albarelli, first half 16th century
Probably Faenza, with decoration alla porcellana, of cylindrical shape with short, tapering shoulders and bases, both painted in blue with a central frieze of formal flowerheads linked by delicate foliate scrollwork, between bands washed in graduating tones of blue, 11.2cm and 11.9cm high, incised pharmacy marks under the bases (fine hairline cracks) (2)
Footnotes
A fragment of a syrup jar with identical decoration is in the collection at the Louvre, see Giacomotti 1974, p. 70, fig. 272. An albarello in the Victoria & Albert Museum with a related alla porcellana design used in the border is believed to have made for the monastery of Cagli, near Urbino; see Rackham 1940, pl. 34, fig. 203.
